Climate Monitoring

• State of the Climate
• U.S. Products
• Global Products
• Drought Monitoring
• U.S. and Global Extremes
• Hurricanes/Tropical Storms
• Tornadoes
• Snow and Ice Data
• Climate Information Record Data
• Special Reports
• Other Products
• Climate and Network Monitoring

• National Overview
• Drought
• U.S. Wildfire
• Hurricanes & Tropical Storms
• Snow & Ice
• Tornadoes

• Global Analysis
• Global Hazards
• El Niño/Southern Oscillation Analysis

U.S. Products

• Climate At A Glance
• U.S. Temperature and Precipitation:
  2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
• Weekly Maps
• Daily ASOS Maps
• National Climate Impact Indicators

Global Products

• Global Climate At a Glance
• Global Temperature Anomalies
• Global Temperature and Precip:
  2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
• ENSO Monitoring
• Monthly Teleconnection Indices
• Weekly Sea Surface Temperature Maps
• Sea Surface Temperature Datasets
• Extended Reconstructed SST Version 2 Dataset
• MSU Upper Air
• In Situ Upper Air (RATPAC)

Drought Monitoring

• Current U.S. Drought Monitor Map
• North American Drought Monitor
• Alaska Precipitation Maps
• Drought Monitoring Tools
• Drought Termination in the U.S.
• U.S. Palmer Drought Indices
  • Weekly Index
  • Current Monthly Index
  • Historical Palmer Maps
  • Historical Palmer Data Files
  • Original Palmer (1965) Article (PDF)
  • Modified Palmer Index (1991) Article (PDF)
• U.S. Standardized Precipitation Index
• U.S. Regional Precipitation Ranks
• U.S. State/Regional Moisture Status
• Drought Workshops
  • April 2002 Drought Workshop
  • June 2003 NADM Workshop
  • October 2003 USDM Workshop
  • October 2004 NADM Workshop
  • October 2006 NADM Workshop
• National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
• 2006 National "Managing Drought" Workshop

U.S. and Global Extremes

• ThreadEx
• U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI)
• National Climate Extremes Committee
• Global Hazards and Extremes
• North America Climate Extremes Monitoring
• Extreme Weather and Climate Events
• U.S. Records
• Extreme Climates in the U.S.

Hurricanes/Tropical Storms

• Tropical Cyclone Summaries by Basin
• Atlantic Hurricane Climatology
• Hurricanes Maps and Special Reports
• International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTRACS)

Tornadoes

• Tornado Climatology
• Tornado Myths, Facts and Safety

Snow and Ice Data

• U.S. Snow Monitoring
• U.S. Snow Climatology
• The Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS)
• 2004 SNOW/Data Users' Workshops

Download Climate Information Record (CIRs) Data

• Access Data
• Data Descriptions
  • Divisional
  • Statewide/Regional/National
  • Palmer Drought Indices

Special Reports

• Midwestern U.S. 2008 Flood Overview
• August 2007 US Heatwave
• April 2007 US cold event
• Hurricane Katrina
• July 2000 Western U.S. Wildfires
• Hurricane Floyd
• July 1999 Climate Report for the Midwest Region
• Hurricane Mitch

Other Products

• Global Climate Change
• Global Surface Temperature Trends
• NSIDC Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice
• Recent Extremes and Climate Trends
• Climatic Extremes
• U.S. Gridded Population
• Stratospheric Ozone
• U.S. Heat Stress Index Data
• Hazards Support
• Map of U.S. Climate Regions
• Map of U.S. Climate Divisions (large)
• Map of U.S. Climate Divisions (small)